Cyphr Selected to Present at MIT Sloan FinTech Conference

We're heading to MIT Sloan School of Management this week to present Cyphr at the MIT Sloan FinTech Conference.

The conference is one of the largest student-run fintech events in the country, bringing together industry leaders, VCs, and emerging companies working on the infrastructure that's reshaping financial services. This year's focus is on AI-driven innovation and post-product fintech solutions that are already in market.

We've been selected to present as part of the conference's showcase of financial technology companies solving coordination problems in capital markets.

Our presentation focuses on how Cyphr became readiness infrastructure for modern small business capital—not by building better software, but by building the missing primitive that the entire ecosystem depends on, our methodology, and progress as a company.

Why MIT Sloan

Unlike most industry conferences, The MIT Sloan FinTech Conference is an academic and industry forum that examines how infrastructure actually gets built in fragmented markets.

The questions they're interested in exploring:

• How do you become the canonical primitive for an entire industry when every institution has different incentives?

• Why does upstream positioning create a defensible moat that direct-to-customer models can't replicate?

• What happens when your data advantage compounds because the ecosystem routes through you by necessity?

What's valuable is the conversation with people who study infrastructure formation and can challenge whether we're solving the coordination problem in a structurally defensible way.

What This Means Going Forward

Infrastructure doesn't get built by accident. It gets built when someone realizes the system is missing a layer, figures out how to provide it, and then proves why that layer should be canonical.

That's the story we're presenting at MIT Sloan.

After the conference, we'll share insights from the case study discussion from what questions the academic and investment community raised, what we learned from presenting to people whose job is to think critically about how systems work, to what it reinforced about the path forward.

For now, we're grateful for the opportunity to present Cyphr's infrastructure model to one of the leading business schools in the country—and to contribute to the broader conversation about what fintech infrastructure looks like 2026 and beyond.

Event Details: MIT Sloan FinTech Conference
February 2026
MIT Sloan School of Management
Cambridge, MA

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About Cyphr

Cyphr is capital readiness infrastructure for modern small businesses. We built the canonical readiness primitive that cities, lenders, ESOs, and the capital ecosystem depend on to understand and fund businesses that don't fit traditional underwriting models.